HP Process Resource Manager (HP PRM)

HP Process Resource Manager (HP PRM) is a new product that became available at HP-UX 10.0. HP PRM is a resource-management tool that is used to control the amount of CPU that processes can use. Basically, HP PRM is an alternate process scheduler that enables you to group processes together and guarantee each group a minimum share of the total CPU time. It consists of a configuration file and a command line interface to help you to create and manage workgroups of users, allocate CPU for each workgroup (and the associated users), monitor the actual performance, dynamically change CPU allocation for workgroups, and move processes from one workgroup to another.

In addition, two of the core commands, ps(1) and id(1), provide an option that displays the process resource manager ID (PRMID) information per process. HP PRM is integrated with HP GlancePlus (a real-time diagnostic monitoring tool) to display PRM CPU entitlements and to monitor the actual CPU usage by PRM group and processes within PRM groups.

For more information on HP PRM, refer to the HP Process Resource Manager User's Guide manual (part number B3834-90001).

The following is ordering information for HP PRM: